Senior Business Project Manager
- Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid (3 days on site now, eventually 4 days on site)
- Contract Length: 12 Months.
We at Raise are hiring a Senior Business Project Manager for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and execute projects with high level of complexity and uncertainty. Oversee project operating procedures; monitoring the productivity and performance of project team.
- Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on timelines, budget and resourcing.
- Develop, manage and ensure adherence to project schedules and completion of project goals.
- Raise and track risks, issues and conflicts, remove barriers.
- Resolve minor project risks, issues and escalate them where appropriate.
- Manage project communications including status reports to executives, stakeholders, business partners, vendors and project team. Including the effective management of project management repositories.
- Facilitate Project Sponsor awareness of changes being introduced into the organization by the project and appropriately manage organizational change management.
- Establish strong working relationships across platform teams to build influence and impact with key business partners. Set up appropriate governance and oversight of all projects, ensuring project follow established Project Management standards
Must-have skills:
- 5–10+ years of advanced Project Management experience
- Experience with Iterative Waterfall, Agile, Kanban delivery methodologies.
- Proven ability to lead transitions from project-based to product-based delivery models.
- Advanced project management knowledge, including project plan development; scheduling capabilities; project metrics gathering, analyzing, and reporting; risk and issue management; and cost/benefit analysis.
- Proficient in MS Suites including Excel MS Project, Jira, and Confluence (intermediate or higher)
Nice-to-have Skills
- Banking/FI with Internal Audit and Regulatory Compliance experience an asset
- PMP certification or equivalent (preferred)
- Agile Certification (i.e Scrum Master)**
Soft Skills:
- Strong Leadership/Accountability
- Exceptional Executive stake holder skills
- Manage Ambiguity
- Top notch written and verbal
- Excellent problem solving
- Collaborative
- Growth mindset/Proactive
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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